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How to get CTRL+C and CTRL+V keyborad function in HD2

Hi All,
In my old XDA the keyboard had a CTRL key which was so easy to cut and paste but the HD2 keyboard is very cumbersome when copying and pasting.
Anyone has suggestion for an alternative keyboard app?
Cheers.
Wolfy

Just press and hold your finger on the text and you will get a pulldownmenu with the commands "copy" and "paste". This is the only way, i know.

Thanx mate..... but I know this function but sometimes it's so hard to highlight the text and then try and copy/cut as soon as I put my finger again on the same place the highlighted text get cleared as the system kind of recognises as I dont want the selection ......sometimes it does work I have to admit but most of the time it doesnt and i just like using teh CTRL function as its kind of neat (thats my understanding) ..... anyone has any alternatives????

wolfyx said:
Thanx mate..... but I know this function but sometimes it's so hard to highlight the text and then try and copy/cut as soon as I put my finger again on the same place the highlighted text get cleared as the system kind of recognises as I dont want the selection ......sometimes it does work I have to admit but most of the time it doesnt and i just like using teh CTRL function as its kind of neat (thats my understanding) ..... anyone has any alternatives????
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You can use FingerKeyboard for this. You can select text by pressing the 'shift' key and then select the text with the arrow buttons. When you have the right selection, you can copy this by pressing 'shift' and then X. To paste press 'shift' and then V. Even shift-Z and shift-X works, exactly the way it does on a normal keyboard. I use it very much.

wolfyx said:
Hi All,
In my old XDA the keyboard had a CTRL key which was so easy to cut and paste but the HD2 keyboard is very cumbersome when copying and pasting.
Anyone has suggestion for an alternative keyboard app?
Cheers.
Wolfy
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I use tweak no. 40 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
which facilitates copy and paste text.

lucbosch said:
You can use FingerKeyboard for this. You can select text by pressing the 'shift' key and then select the text with the arrow buttons. When you have the right selection, you can copy this by pressing 'shift' and then X. To paste press 'shift' and then V. Even shift-Z and shift-X works, exactly the way it does on a normal keyboard. I use it very much.
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ok, and how can i then replace the selected text with a capital "V" (when shift-v is the shortcut for paste, which is ctrl-v on a pc) ?

hebbe said:
ok, and how can i then replace the selected text with a capital "V" (when shift-v is the shortcut for paste, which is ctrl-v on a pc) ?
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I'm sorry, I was wrong. You have to press shift and hold (!) the Z, X, C or V button. When you press shift you also see the caption of buttons change. Above the Z you can see 'undo', above the X 'cut' and so on...

Swype has a dedicated copy and one for paste in the symbols/edit section

Thanx for the feedback ....i'm going to try these but i just wish i could have that ctrl button.........hehehe

try swype is much better than the default kb

These are basics features of TouchPal :
Copy, paste, text selection, selec all, home, end, page up & down, etc...

wolfyx said:
Hi All,
In my old XDA the keyboard had a CTRL key which was so easy to cut and paste but the HD2 keyboard is very cumbersome when copying and pasting.
Anyone has suggestion for an alternative keyboard app?
Cheers.
Wolfy
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Try VNKeyb v2.2.0 of hanoiwap here:

This one works perfectly. Thanks.

Am I missing Something here? Copy & Paste support

I seem to have no copy and paste. Running TnT Lite V 2.2. everything is great but the lack of C&P is very irritating. have tried it in dolphin and stock browser.

prerunnerseth said:
I seem to have no copy and paste. Running TnT Lite V 2.2. everything is great but the lack of C&P is very irritating. have tried it in dolphin and stock browser.
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Dolphin HD is working with copy and paste with me on TnT Lite 2.2

liquidcaffeine said:
Dolphin HD is working with copy and paste with me on TnT Lite 2.2
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Ok... so what am i doing wrong? tried double tapping... and a bunch of other stuff.

Long press for select text/copy/paste options
With the default keyboard you can use the long press and get select, copy, paste text options. You should try Ultra Keyboard from the Marketplace, there's a trial version. In the settings, remove full screen in landscape checkmark and play with the height of the keys to your liking. There's a top section above the keyboard, with some select text and copy paste icons like in word. There's also cursor keys on both portrait and landscape mode keyboards, nice for fine editing/correcting. Typing is much nicer with this, at least for me. Oh, and if you like Swype, they have a trace option as well.

dkhilo said:
With the default keyboard you can use the long press and get select, copy, paste text options. You should try Ultra Keyboard from the Marketplace, there's a trial version. In the settings, remove full screen in landscape checkmark and play with the height of the keys to your liking. There's a top section above the keyboard, with some select text and copy paste icons like in word. There's also cursor keys on both portrait and landscape mode keyboards, nice for fine editing/correcting. Typing is much nicer with this, at least for me. Oh, and if you like Swype, they have a trace option as well.
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strange i cant even get it to work with the Stock TnT Keyboard long press. I was using better keyboard before
Edit: ok i got it to come up... had to have the keyboard up... but still couldnt get it to select text.

dkhilo said:
With the default keyboard you can use the long press and get select, copy, paste text options. You should try Ultra Keyboard from the Marketplace, there's a trial version. In the settings, remove full screen in landscape checkmark and play with the height of the keys to your liking. There's a top section above the keyboard, with some select text and copy paste icons like in word. There's also cursor keys on both portrait and landscape mode keyboards, nice for fine editing/correcting. Typing is much nicer with this, at least for me. Oh, and if you like Swype, they have a trace option as well.
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I tried ultra and can see it in keyboard option but can't activate it. When I then longpressa text box it doesn't have ultra listed, confirming that it did not activate. What's the trick,do you have to adb push like instaalling swipe?

katmandu421 said:
I tried ultra and can see it in keyboard option but can't activate it. When I then longpressa text box it doesn't have ultra listed, confirming that it did not activate. What's the trick,do you have to adb push like instaalling swipe?
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You have to move keyboards to the system apps folder to use them.

After the Ultra -trial version install, I could not find the keyboard to move to system apps folder. Where can I find the keyboard either apk or anything?

satishraman said:
After the Ultra -trial version install, I could not find the keyboard to move to system apps folder. Where can I find the keyboard either apk or anything?
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I'm on TNT Lite 2.2 and in the settings I'm able to select/deselect the keyboard. Which version are you running?

I installed the trial version of Ultra keyboard and you need to go to language and keyboards in settings to tell your tablet to use it. Then when you go to a text box and long press you should be able to select it. Now, if I could just find the magic button to make the keyboard full width I would be happy...

[Q] cut, copy and paste...

Is there a keyboard app that moves the cut and copy and paste down from the top while typing to the text area-like the iphone- so I don't have to reach up there to perform? I was like a machine on the iphone-I suck on this s3! I recognize the superiorty of the droid but its little thkngs like this-having to stop and use two thumbs- that make me twice as lesselessefficient....see? This Sucks!
Any Ideas out there for what I'm looking for?
THANKS!

Swype!
Yes, get Swype Beta (it's free and you don't even have to sign up for anything any more; I can't post a link because I'm too junior on these forums, sorry ). The functions aren't immediately obvious, but there's a Swype key and tracing from that key to certain letters works like Ctrl-<whatever> on a PC, eg:
* Swype => a: select all
* Swype => c: copy
* Swype => x: cut
To paste, long-press in an area you can type in Hope this helps.

[Q] SwiftKey. How edit app to add symbol?

Hi!
I use SwiftKey Cloud Beta on my Samsung Galaxy S3. It's very good keyboard. I often use long dash in my texts. But I must tap "123" button for find it. It take time.
How add "long dash" symbol to some button in main view? E.g. on button "G". In order to long tap on "G", and select between "minus" and "long dash".
I unpack apk with APK Manager. Also a make backup installed app, and make nandroid-backup of my device. What next? Links welcome.
Thanks!
Sorry for my bad English.

LG Optimus F3Q (D520) and remapping its hardware keyboard

The LG Optimus F3Q (D520) is a phone with "Five-Line Slide-Out QWERTY Keyboard with PC-Like Shortcuts" (LG website). Missing from the keyboard however, is the "Ctrl" key. This brief guide shall attempt to show how an arbitrary key may be remapped for it.
Root the phone. Saferoot by k1mu works for this phone, although I found that the phone did appear to hang should one try to reboot or power off using the hardware power button after rooting. Removing and replacing the battery boots up the phone without issue should that happen. Software-based rebooting works fine.
Install your favourite file explorer for root users. ES File Explorer File Manager worked well for me.
On the phone, navigate to the "/system/usr/keylayout" directory.
Make a copy of the "f3q-keypad.kl" file and put it somewhere safe in case you need to revert to it.
Edit the "f3q-keypad.kl" file using a text editor.
Look for the line "key 100 ALT_RIGHT WAKE_DROPPED". This corresponds to the fn key on the right side of the keyboard.
Replace "ALT_RIGHT" with "CTRL_RIGHT".
Exit the file and save. View it again to verify that your changes have been saved.
Reboot.
Try it out. Ctrl-C should work in a terminal emulator.
To have even greater control over the remapping, you would also need to edit the "f3q-keypad.kcm" file in the "/system/usr/keychars" directory.
Note! If you are using connectbot, please obtain at least version 1.8.1 from connectbot at GitHub. Version 1.7.1 of connectbot in the Google Play store did not recognise the Ctrl command when I tried. Thus, it may be possible that some other programs may also not recognise the Ctrl command.
Disclaimer: I mucked around a lot by trial and error as version 1.7.1 of connectbot was tripping me up, so I had changed a lot more things than what I had listed in the steps above. However, looking back at it, I doubt that any other changes I had made were truly necessary.
Helpful stuff:
appelflap has a button remapper app, which I installed, but didn't appear to be able to do what I wanted. However, the KeynrTracker.apk he linked is very helpful should you very quickly want to know which key corresponds to what.
References:
Key Layout Files
Key Character Maps Files
List of Unicode characters
Other thoughts:
I found Link2SD and Foldermount [ROOT] to be indispensible for this phone.

Thanks! I just might try replacing that pesky write and share app key with CTRL...
It would satisfy a request of mine for my F3Q ROM.
EDIT: Downloaded the app. Because pressing the key pushes the app to the background, it won't capture.
Last line of the file though says "WRITE_SHARE". Think I got somewhere.
Sure did, "WRITE_SHARE" now replaced with "CTRL_LEFT", and is working like a charm!

Glad this helped somebody !
joel.maxuel said:
Thanks! I just might try replacing that pesky write and share app key with CTRL...
It would satisfy a request of mine for my F3Q ROM.
EDIT: Downloaded the app. Because pressing the key pushes the app to the background, it won't capture.
Last line of the file though says "WRITE_SHARE". Think I got somewhere.
Sure did, "WRITE_SHARE" now replaced with "CTRL_LEFT", and is working like a charm!
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Keth Tenderfoot said:
Glad this helped somebody !
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how to deal with sticky keys?

Polish keyboard mapping on F3Q
Hi, I'm sharing my .kcm and .kl files of the F3Q used with the Polish characters mapped to the respective keys.
(Note to the German users of F3Q: you might edit my f3q-keypad.kcm file ,and map your äöüß characters to the aous keys, if you feel like having your language version of the mapping.)
Keyboard allocation modifications:
SEARCH key mapped to TAB
WRITE_SHARE key mapped to CTRL_LEFT
ALT_RIGHT key mapped to CTRL_RIGHT
PL layout: [ęąółżźćń] mapped on ctrl+[eaolzxcn]
PL layout: [„] mapped on ctrl+[k]
PL layout: [”] mapped on ctrl+[,]
The files have to replace /system/usr/keychars/f3q-keypad.kcm and /system/usr/keylayout/f3q-keypad.kl respectively to be active.

Hallo Pruszków,
Thanx for your polish Keymaps, great work!!!
At the moment I try to modfy them to German. It works fine so far, but now my question is, how can I use the right "fn" key (which is the new ctrl/alt key) without pressing at the same moment as the vowel/consonant, which I want to modify? With the left "fn" key I can first press the button, then release it and it holds its function.
Do you know what I mean?
Would be fantastic, if there is a solution too!
Best regards & dziękuję,
sÖren

fn/alt or ctrl?
Hi Sören,
Thanks for sharing your feedback. I'm glad my stuff could be of some help to you!
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how can I use the right "fn" key (which is the new ctrl/alt key) without pressing at the same moment as the vowel/consonant, which I want to modify? With the left "fn" key I can first press the button, then release it and it holds its function.
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Well, the "fn" labeled key was originally associated with the "alt" behavior. The "alt" keeps its mode when you press and release it. But I mapped the right "fn" to the "ctrl" bahavior, and... "ctrl" works just when you press and hold it. So, what to do in your case?
You might get back to the original "fn' mapping (in the .kl file) and keep the right "fn" as "alt", and then define äöüß (in the .kcm file) in combination with "alt" instead of "ctrl".
But...
there is a challenge with the special characters already mapped to the keys. E.g. let's take the key "u". Originally "alt" and "u" prints "+". When you'd map "alt" and "u" as "ü" then you'd loose any possibility to get "+". I have no good idea how to resolve that well. Maybe you'd map "+" to: "ctrl" and "u"? Then you'd use "ctrl" only from the key 59 (CTRL_LEFT), as the key 100 you'd map back to ALT_RIGHT.
The bottom line is: you'd need to choose between "alt" and "ctrl" stuff when deciding your settings.
In my case I took "ctrl" for my Polish mapping, as I'm used to press and hold the "fn" to print the Polish characters. If you're used to press and release, to print a German character, you might consider using "alt" instead.
I hope this helps.
Tschüs,
Bernard

Remapping IME
Thank you for the post Keth, very easy explained.
I am wondering about modifying not the standard character map, but the LG Keyboard IME.
I could not find any alternative input method with a good support for physical keyboard and good dictionaries, so I thought it may be better to modify the included input method than using a different one, correct me if I am wrong.
So I extracted the LGEIMEbin.apk from the system/apps directory, and opened it on the computer to figure out how to modify it.
Keyboard layout are saved in XML, so I supposed it should be easy to modify with a text editor like Notepad++, and just say for every key or combination of keys what kind of character do I want.
Well, I was wrong, as the xml do not contain any clear structure that is in any way possible to understand as it was for f3q-keypad.kcm and f3q-keypad.kl.
I tried to open all kind of xml files included in the LGEIMEbin.apk, and all of them presented non recognised characters, as you can see in the picture that can be found at this address:
img4web.com/i/D3RC42.png
Has anybody any hint of why notepad++ does not recognise those characters and how could I correctly visualise them?